Potentiality of Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) as intermediate host of the Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Céspedes 1971

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 743-745

  Dos Santos Carvalho, Omar ^a,d   Teles, Horácio M S ^b   Mota, Ester Maria ^a   Gomes Furtado De Mendonça, Cristiane Lafetá ^a,c   Lenzi, Henrique Leonel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Superintend de Cntrl de Endemias   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d Pont Univ Catolica de Minas Gerais ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abdominal angiostrongyliasis; Achatina fulica; Angiostrongylus costaricensis; Experimental infection

Indexed keywords

ACHATINA FULICA; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; GASTROPOD; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVA; MOLLUSC; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITISM;

ACHATINA FULICA; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS COSTARICENSIS; FULICA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0742323890     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822003000600017     Document Type: Article

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